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Huaorani Amazon Rainforest Eco-lodge, Ecuador
This Amazon adventure holiday takes you to the heart of rainforest life with The Huaorani, a timeless tribe in Ecuador.
You stay with and experience the daily lives of the Huaorani, who, for thousands of years, have they made their home in the lush forests of the Amazon rainforest.
The tribe still maintain their traditional lifestyle but they are no longer nomadic hunters, leading a more settled and open existence in the humid tropical forests of Ecuador.
The Huaorani territory takes in some 1.7 million acres. By inviting small numbers of people to share their world for short periods, they intend to keep their culture alive and have opted for sustainable tourism.
The Huaorani
The Huaorani live as nomadic hunters and gatherers with no outside contact until the end of the 1950s. Their name means the people, while everyone else is cowore - non-human.
Numbering approximately 2,400 individuals, the Huaorani maintain a largely traditional lifestyle living directly in and from the rainforest.
Their land forms part of the world’s largest remaining tropical rainforest, the 6 million square kilometres of the Amazon basin. This, the world's greatest network of rivers and lakes, contains about 20% of the worlds freshwater and more than one tenth of all the creatures on Earth today.
On the banks of the Rio Shiripuno, at 300m altitude (approx), lies the community of Quehueri'ono - Huaorani territory.
The first official Huaorani protectorate was created in 1983 and the current much larger Huaorani Ethnic Reserve was established in 1990.
The Ecolodge has a variety of trails (moderate, intermediate and challenging) and activity options that are suitable for a broad range of interests, ages and fitness levels.
Their territory traditionally extended all the way from the Napo River in the North (which you see from the town of Coca when you depart) to the Curary River in the South. Nowadays, the territory -some 680 000 hectares - covers only approximately one third of this traditional land.
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Itinerary |
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Day 1 |
Trfr Quito-Shell, fly to Huaorani, canoe to Eco-lodge, dinner (D) |
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Day 2 |
Meet community, afternoon wildlife spotting, night walk (B,L,D) |
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Day 3 |
Hunter/gatherer trail, PM relax with community (B,L,D) |
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Day 4 |
Canoe to Nenquepare campsite via Apaica community (B,L,D) |
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Day 5 |
Trfr to Coca, fly to Quito, ends (B) |
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Included
Accommodations at the Lodge, meals & drinks as listed, activities, Huaorani guide, bilingual naturalist guide, camping gear, rain poncho (from Quito onwards), rubber boots, umbrella (in cabin at lodge), biodegradable soap & shampoo, flights and transport Quito-Quito |
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Not included
Entrance fee to Huaorani Territory (US$10 per person), soft drinks and alcoholic beverages, transfers from and to airport in Quito, boots greater than sizes: European 44; American M 10.5/F 12; British M 10/F 9.5, tips, insurance, international flights, personal items |
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